Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:24:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: raiden@shell.core.com (Steven Lake) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), raiden@shell.core.com (Steven Lake), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar and RM Message-ID: <200207280224.g6S2OAm24350@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0207261912290.23136-100000@shell.core.com> from "Steven Lake" at Jul 26, 2002 07:36:55 PM
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> > tar cf /some/place/with/room/mydir.tar /usr/local/dir_to_tar
> >
> > Will tar up everything in /usr/local/dir_to_tar and make
> > a tarfile called mydir.tar in /some/place/with/room/
> > All file names will have full paths within your current when you
> > untar them later
> > as in /usr/local/dir_to_tar/coolpic.jpg
>
> Cool. So if I understand this correctly, it will also grab things
> like /usr/local/dir_to_tar/some_subdir/another_subdir/somefile.jpg? Or
> will it only get stuff in ./dir_to_tar
>
It will get everything starting with /usr/local/dir_to_tar and under
unless you use some flags to tell it otherwise.
Throw in the -v flag as in:
tar cvf /some/place/with/room/mydir.tar /usr/local/dir_to_tar
and watch it all go flying by if such is your penchant..
////jerry
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